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Education

Ph.D. in Classical Studies,	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1980
Michigan Assoc., American Academy, Rome,	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1977
M.A. in Classical Studies,	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1975
Laurea, voto ottimo, in Etruscologiá	Universitá per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy	1974
Certificato in Corso Medio di Italiano,	Universitá per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy	1973
B.A. in Classical Studies,	Stanford University	1973

Areas of Research

Roman history, esp. imperial; Roman topography; Roman women; historiography

Areas of Interest

Ancient Mediterranean
Temperate Europe (Roman period)

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Professor in the Department of History, 2005 - present

Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classical Studies, 1995-present

Chairman, Department of Classical Studies, 1996-99

Associate Professor of Classical Studies, 1985-95

Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, 1982-85

A.W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, 1979-82

Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies

A.W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge, 1992-93

Graduate Assistant, 1976-77

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

"Writing Beyond the Disciplines" award, Duke University, May, 2010
Dean’s Distinguished Service Award, Duke University, 2008
Designation as a Mellon Foundation course of graduate course "The Historians," as part of "Making the Humanities Central" project, sponsored by Duke's John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2003
Summer Stipend, for travel to Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Hungary for research on Pannonian Stelae, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002
Grants for "Romanization on the Northern Frontier: The Evidence of the Pannonian Stelae”, Duke Univ. Arts & Sciences Research Council (A&SRC), 2000-2001, 2002-2003
Grant for “Women on the Edge: Depictions of Women on Rome’s Northeastern Frontier (Pannonia)”, Duke’s A&SRC, 1999-2000
Fellowship for University Teachers, for Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-96
Summer Stipend for research on Hadrian and cities in Greece, Turkey, Romania and Serbia (declined), National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995
Gildersleeve Prize, for “The Imperial Women of the Early Second Century A.C.,” American Journal of Philology 112 (1991) 513-40.
Annual “Regular Grants” for “Hadrianic Urbanization in the Roman Empire” Duke Univ. Research Council, 1987-90, 1992-95
Selected as an applicant for a NEH Summer Stipend for research on Hadrian and cities in Cilicia, Pamphylia, Lycia, Pisidia and Lycaonia, Duke University, 1989
Fellowship, for research on "Hadrianic Urbanization in the Roman Empire", George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, 1986-87
NEH stipend for publication of Hadrian and the City of Rome, Princeton University Press, 1986
Regular Grants for Hadrian and the City of Rome, Duke University Research Council, 1984, 1985
Research Grant for Hadrian and the City of Rome, American Philosophical Society, 1984
Duke Endowment Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University, 1982
Regular Grant for research in Roman Spain, Duke University Research Council, 1981
Fellowship from Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1978-79
Borso di Studio, Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1974
Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1972

Selected Recent Invited Talks

"The End of the Road? New Discoveries in Roman Topography", University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 31, 2011  

"The Importance of the Physical for (Roman) History: The Case of the Pantheon", Ohio University, October 18, 2010  

"The Pantheon in Rome: Monuments, Memory, Latin, & Hadrian” and “The Puzzle of the Aedicula Faustinae; Women in the Forum Romanum", Wisconsin Latin Teachers Association, Madison, WI, March 18, 2010  

Doctoral Theses Directed

Bart Huelsenbeck, Figures in the Shadows: Identities in Artistic Prose from the Anthology of the Elder Seneca, (2007 - 2009)  

Charles E. Muntz, Diodorus Siculus, Egypt, and Rome, (2006 - 2008)  

Molly M. Pryzwansky, Feminine Imperial Ideals in the Caesares of Suetonius, (2006 - 2008)  

Jill Chmielewski, Portrayals of Daily Life on the Funerary Monuments of Roman Gaul and Germany, (2000 - 2002)  

Eric Adler, The ‘Enemy’ Speaks: Oratory and Criticism of Empire in Roman Historiography, (2002)  

Jeannine Uzzi, The Representation of Children in Public Art of Roman Empire, from Augustus to Constantine, (1998)  

Darryl Phillips, Voting During the Principate of Augustus, (1994)  

Professional Affiliations

American Philological Association
Archaeological Institute of America
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Association of Ancient Historians
Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome

Publications

Books

1. with co-authors D. Gargola and R.J.A. Talbert, A Brief History of The Romans (2005), Oxford University Press
2. with co-authors D. Gargola and R.J.A. Talbert, The Romans: From Village to Empire (2004), Oxford University Press
3. Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire (2000), Princeton University Press
4. with co-editor H. B. Evans, The Shapes of City Life in Rome and Pompeii (2000), Caratzas
5. Hadrian and the City of Rome (1987), Princeton University Press

Journal Articles

1. Women and Gender in the Forum Romanum, Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. 141 (2011), pp. 107-43
2. Tacitus and the Final Rites of Agrippina: Annals 14, 9, in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, Collection Latomus, edited by C. Deroux, vol. XIV (2008), pp. 375-93
3. Public Architecture in Rome and the Year A.D. 96, edited by E. Badian, American Journal of Ancient History, "The Year A.D. 96: Did It Make a Difference?", vol. 15 (2000), pp. 67-90
4. Matidia the Younger, Echoes de Monde Classique/Classical Views, vol. 26 (1992), pp. 19-32
5. Imperial Women of the Early Second Century A.C, American Journal of Philology, vol. 112 (1991), pp. 513-40
6. Theaters in the Roman Empire, Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 53 (1990), pp. 184-92
7. Hadrian and Italian Cities, Chiron, vol. 19 (1989), pp. 235-71
8. Caesar's Second Consulship and the Completion and Date of Bellum Civile, Classical Journal, vol. 84 (1988), pp. 31-40
9. The Style of the Laudes Neronis, Chapter 4.1 of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, Classical Bulletin, vol. 62 (1986), pp. 10-16
10. The Pomerial Extension of Augustus, Historia, vol. 35 (1986), pp. 13-27
11. The 'Ara Ditis-Ustrinum of Hadrian' in the Western Campus Martius, and Other Problematic Roman Ustrina, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 89 (1985), pp. 486-97
12. Tacitus on Claudius and the Pomerium of Rome: Annals 12.23.1-24, Classical Journal, vol. 80 (1984), pp. 36-44
13. Further Thoughts on Hadrianic Athens, Hesperia, vol. 52 (1983), pp. 173-176

Papers Published

1. Antonine Rome: Security in the Homeland, in The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation and Ritual, edited by Bjoern C. Ewald and Carlos F. Norena (2010), pp. 169-97, New York: Cambridge University Press
2. New Approaches to Roman Institutional and Political History, Posted with other papers from the 2009 Committee on Ancient History Panel, New Approaches to Greek and Roman Politics and Warfare, on the American Philological Association Website (2009)
3. Hadrian, in Lives of the Caesars, edited by A. A. Barrett (2008), pp. 155-80, Oxford
4. Children and Parents on the Tombstones of Pannonia, in The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy and Beyond, edited by M. George (2005), pp. 287-318, Oxford
5. Trajan Outside Rome: Buildings and Sculptural Commissions in Italian and Provincial Cities, edited by P. Stadter and L. Van der Stockt, Sage and Emperor (2003), pp. 259-77, Leuven: Leuven University Press
6. Faustina the Younger, Mater Castrorum, edited by R. Frei-Stolba and A. Biel, Etude de Lettres (2003), pp. 249-68
7. Just Window Dressing? Imperial Women as Architectural Sculpture, edited by D.E.E. Kleiner and S.B. Matheson, I Claudia II (2000), pp. 61-75, Austin: University of Texas Press
8. Luxuriant Gardens and Extravagant Women: The Horti of Rome between Republic and Empire, edited by M. Cima and E. La Rocca, Horti romani. Ideologia e autorappresentazione (1998), pp. 71-82, Rome: L'Erma de Bretschneider
9. Italica and Hadrian's Urban Benefactions, edited by A. Caballos and P. Leon, Italica MMCC. Actas de las Jornadas del 2.200 Aniversario de la Fundacion de Italica (1997), pp. 115-35, Seville: Consejeria de Cultura
10. The Traianeum in Italica (Spain) and the Library of Hadrian in Athens, edited by D. Buitron-Oliver, The Interpretation of Architectural Sculpture in Greece and Rome (1997), pp. 193-217, Hanover/London: National Gallery of Art, Washington
11. The City Gate of Plancia Magna in Perge, in Roman Art in Context: An Anthology, edited by E. D'Ambra (1993), pp. 189-207, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
12. Plancia Magna of Perge, and the Roles and Status of Women in Roman Asia Minor, in Women's History and Ancient History, edited by S.B. Pomeroy (1991), pp. 249-72, Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press
13. The Lucii Volusii Saturnini and Tacitus, edited by A. Carandini, I Volusii Saturnini: Una famiglia romana della prima età imperiale (1982), pp. 7-16, Bari: De Donato

Papers In Progress

1. Peoples of the Roman World, Cambridge Introductions to Roman Civilization (2012), New York: Cambridge University Press
2. M.T. Boatwright, D. Gargola, N. Lenski, & R.J.A. Talbert, The Romans: From Village to Empire. 2nd, expanded edition (November, 2011), Oxford University Press
3. "The Elogia of the Volusii Saturnini at Lucus Feroniae, and the Education of their Domestic Service", in L'écriture dans la maison romaine, edited by M. Corbier (2011), pp. 23 pp, Paris: CNRS

Book Reviews

1. Review of A. Galimberti, Adriano e l'ideologia del principato, sehepunkte - Review Journal for History, vol. 10.5 (2010)
2. Review of A. Leone et al., 'Res bene gestae': Ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2009)
3. "Hadrian in London", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 113 no. 1 (2009), pp. 121-28 (Museum review of exhibit "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict," at the British Museum..)
4. Review of Mary Beard, The Roman Triumph, The Historian, vol. 71.4 (2009), pp. 881-82
5. Review of K. Lomas and T. Cornell, eds., Bread and Circuses: euergetism and municipal patronage in Roman Italy, American Journal of Philology, vol. 125 (2004), pp. 293-96
6. Review of J. Arce, Memoria de los antepasados: Puesta en escena y desarrollo del elogio fúnebre romano and of J. Edmondson, T. Nogales Basarrate, and W. Trillmich, Imagen y memoria: Monumentos funerarios con retratos en la colonia Augusta Emerita, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 108 (2004), pp. 135-37
7. Review of J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz, Decline and Fall of the Roman City, American Historical Review (2003), pp. 1199-1200
8. Review of A. R. Birley, Hadrian. The Restless Emperor, Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 13 (2000), pp. 593-96
9. Review of W. E. Mierse, Temples and Towns in Roman Iberia. The Social and Architectural Dynamics of Sanctuary Designs, from the Third Century B.C. to the Third Century A.D, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 59 (2000), pp. 554-56
10. Review of A. Grimm, D. Kessler, and H. Meyer, Der Obelisk des Antinoos, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 103 (1998), pp. 173
11. Review of F. Yegul, Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity, Design Book Review, vol. 35/36 (1995), pp. 70-74
12. Review of D. Willers, Hadrian's Panhellenisches Programm. Archaologische Beitrage zur Neugestaltung Athens durch Hadrian, Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 7 (1994), pp. 426-31
13. Review of O. F. Robinson, Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration, Classical Outlook, vol. 70 (1993), pp. 150
14. Review of S. D. Martin, The Roman Jurists and the Organization of Private Building in the Late Republic and Early Empire, Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 81 (1991), pp. 184-85
15. Review of H. Stierlin, Hadrian et l'architecture romaine, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 45 (1986), pp. 408-10
16. Review of K. Christ, The Romans: An Introduction to their History and Civilization, Classical Outlook, vol. 63 (1986), pp. 139
17. Review of F. S. Kleiner, The Arch of Nero in Rome. A Study of the Roman Honorary Arch before and under Nero, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 90 (1986), pp. 492-93

Other

1. Hadrian, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by M. Gagarin (2010)
2. Capri, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by M. Gagarin (2010)